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02-23-2006, 07:54 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Scottsdale,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Bought an Exact carbon car in TX. Bought a 427 sideoiler with 630 HP
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Spare tire mounting
Can someone here tell me how the spare tire was fastened in the trunk? Pics?
Thanks,
John
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The average fighter pilot, despite the sometimes swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring. These feelings just don't involve anybody else.
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02-23-2006, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New Britain,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Size 10 Feet
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SC or Street?
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02-23-2006, 08:19 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Palm Coast,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby American CSX 4241 - authentically built
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Pretty sure S/Cs never came with a spare  .
On the street cars, they had a different trunk floor tray, that was more recessed. The full size spare wheel fit snugly into the tray. I have seen some cars with hold down straps, but I am not sure that was original. Ron wuold probably know better.
Here's a pic of a street car trunk with spare (courtesy of csxinfo.net)..
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CSX 4241, KMP 357 - sold and missed, CSX 4819 - cancelled, FFR 5132 - sold
See my car at CSXinfo.net here >> CSX 4241
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02-23-2006, 08:21 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby American CSX 4241 - authentically built
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Here's 3301 with straps...
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Sal Mennella
CSX 4241, KMP 357 - sold and missed, CSX 4819 - cancelled, FFR 5132 - sold
See my car at CSXinfo.net here >> CSX 4241
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02-24-2006, 02:31 AM
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If you look at the photo that Power Surge provided from csxinfo.net, then imagine that there is no carpet on the floor, and everything in the trunk is sprayed with a can of Krylon gloss black paint; you will have a very good representation of an original street car setup. I don't believe that any of the cars had provisions for holddowns.
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02-24-2006, 05:23 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Northport,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, KMP178 / '66 GT350H, 4-speed
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I don't believe there were any tie-points for hold-down straps.
The white car, pictured above (CSX3301) really can't be used as a benchmark for 'originality'. (  )
In the street trunk, it looks like the spare just sat cradled in the well. |
02-24-2006, 06:05 AM
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Thank you all very much. I did find the street car on csx.net but didn't find the SC version.
Very helpful.
John
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02-24-2006, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Holderness, NH, US of A,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 4772 old iron FE
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One more CSX 3282
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03-02-2006, 11:49 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: greensboro,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 2401 street 289 Cobra and CSX 3288 Street "427" Cobra
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427 street cars did not have any hold down for the tire that I know of. Tire fits snugly in the tray. 289's did have a hold down rod and unusual threaded knob. Jim Maxwell
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03-05-2006, 10:37 PM
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Location: Vero Beach,
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Cobra Make, Engine: COX 6111 - '66 "AC 289 Sports."
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Jim - Oddly enough, 6111 (the AC 289) uses the standard 427 Cobra-type trunk in black fiberglass, but has the threaded hold-down with the same oddball nut as the 289 Cobra street cars.
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03-05-2006, 11:14 PM
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Talk about skinny rubber! How in the heck did those things stay on the road.
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06-12-2006, 11:41 PM
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Not always. A lawyer friend and I were talking and he said (remember this is a lawyer) that there is a specific legal term which I don't remember that is used when the original purchaser of a vehicle dosn't live long enough to make the first payment and the 427 Cobra has the record.
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